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@George,

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Thought it was opium.

You don't know your Coleridge George. Opium, like all similar drugs, is an attempt to cure another problem. The guy thought that a focus on the drugs distracted from the deeper problem and did nothing about it. Possibly deliberately.

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@spendius,

Yeah, I don't think it bwas Xanadu either more like Beijing, and Alph? Does that sound Chinese to you? Chaobai more like. Sunless sea? Swamp.

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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.
Calvin and Hobbes

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@edgarblythe,

thank you ed.

you made me smile. miss calvin we do...

“-You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
-What mood is that?
-Last-minute panic.”

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one more from calvin before I go...

“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.”

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I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
~ Mark Twain

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“Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.”
Emo Philips

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Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a sea horse, thought a rarity,
Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

~Robert Browning
"My Last Duchess"

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@George,

Love Robert Browning, George. "...she had a heart too soon made glad.."

"...I was ever a fighter, so one fight more, the best and the last..."

Another Browning

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Ragman in reference to JGoldman10:

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A conversation between JG10 and his mommy: "Look, Ma! I have a congregation, too! Watch my yell at them...just like you do!"

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@Letty,

"You will find my little sap that there is more of me for you to love as each day goes by".

Run From Lookers by Anastasia Geevmeemorovich. Photography by Boris Ikuntgerinuff.

A noble blow on behalf of the plain Janes who are the salt of the earth.

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"It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are."

--Unknown

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@Letty,

Letty wrote:

Love Robert Browning, George. "...she had a heart too soon made glad.."

Chilling in context, isn't it?

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"In chaos, sugar us up".

Norman Mailer.

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“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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@edgarblythe,

Indeed, edgar. Sad

"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding."
-~ Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons

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@msolga,

.. & one more, for good measure:

I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.
H Rider Haggard

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@edgarblythe,

Sir Henry, however, though he was so sore and stiff that he could scarcely stir, seemed pretty fresh, notwithstanding the wound on the face, which made eating difficult and laughter an impossibility.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE.

So if you get a wound like that avoid video footage of the Iowa Caucus.

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Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes.

~Robert Frost
"Two Tramps in Mud Time"

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